What is AI?

Artificial intelligence, or AI, is technology that enables computers and machines to simulate human intelligence and problem-solving capabilities. Making jobs quicker and faster to do, instead of humans sepening hours or even days to complete a task.

How is it used within photography?

“To create AI-generated images, the machine learning model scans millions of images across the internet along with the text associated with them. The algorithms spot trends in the images and text and eventually begin to guess which image and text fit together. Once the model can predict what an image should look like from a given text, they can create entirely new images from scratch based on a new set of descriptive text users enter on the app.”

To produce an image, a user enters keywords and a model generates images utilizing those keywords. Strings of words can be used.

How do you use it?

Ai has recently been introduced to adobe photoshop in the form of generative fill, this not only allows photographers to add elements to their images that elsewise would have been difficult or impractical to accomplish, this makes a photographer much more able to accomplish what they envision

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Experimentation

Example Of Creation

I used AI to adapt this image within photoshop, I sed the generative fill tool, i selected the sky and then simply typed in “Stars”, and it generated this. It was once just an image of a plain purple looking sky which has now been transformed into a beautiful starry sky.

Final Three Favorite AI Images and Evaluation

This is one of my favourite photos’ I have created due to how the sunset is so dim yet so bright, when you first look at an image you are instantly drawn to the brightest thing within the image. So I like how the faint people swimming within the water are almost like a challenge, you have to almost focus too see them swimming down there. My concept for this image was that the ocean is a part of mother nature and the earth its self, and we are merely sharing in her offerings, I have portrayed this by making the people swimming in the water so small compared to the massive scene around them. I used photo shop to AI generate the people swimming in.

I really like this image of a starry night due to the contrast I’m the colours of lighting, this image has a very wide tonal range, it almost looks strange to the human eye too see a sunset mixed with a sky full of stars as generally the stars don’t come out until the sun has fully gone away. I love just how realistic the stars look, giving the image texture and tone. My concept behind this photo was to portray what our sky’s could actually look like without light pollution, artificial light has done much to safeguard and enhance our night time environment but, if not properly controlled, obtrusive light can present serious physiological and ecological problems. Yet another issue that humans have created which takes the earths natural beauty away. I used generative fill on photoshop too add the stars in this image.

I used ai generative fill on photoshop to add the boat within this image. This image alone was not one of my favourite’s at all, due to how blurry it is and how strange the lighting is within this image. But I do like the movement shadow’s off the model in the centre of the image, as I think it adds surface leading the eye to that golden section. I think the composition of this image is very important as it takes away from the blur/shake and makes it look less harsh. My concept within this image was to portray how, there are always many different scenario’s happening around us, including our own one, and we are only the main character in our own story, which is why it makes it even more important too look after our planet, as you are the only person to blame for what you are doing, its your own scenario and your own life, so it is all on you what you do in regards too things like pollution.

Past

For my AI generated image of the past I have used a photo of le bray beach, where you can see the La Rocco tower, which was the 23rd and last coastal tower in Jersey to be built following the Conway design and was also the largest and most heavily armed of the whole series. It maintained a military role into the mid-19th century, as evidenced by a Royal Engineers report in January 1848, which records that La Rocco Tower and Battery (as it had by then become known) was armed with five 32-pounder guns. I used the selection tool to get rid of the people I originally photographed on the beach, and then used generative fill to create a narrative of soldiers shooting up at an enemy plane.

Present

For my AI generated image of the present I used a photo that I took up at active in St.Brelards, I originally took this image to capture the storm damage of the fallen trees, and I used AI generate tool to add people walking on the grass, too show that present life doesn’t just stop when an issue as big as a storm occurs.

Future

For my AI generated image of the future I used another image that I took along the five mile road, I used the AI generate tool to add many things to this image, for example, a car on the sand, a robot on the grass, flying cars in the sky, a big cruise ship in the water, and wind turbines. Wind turbines have been something already discussed for Jerseys future so I thought this would be a more realistic thing to incorporate rather than the flying cars, but you never know what the future holds for Jersey.